Show us your Downtown!

[mark405 22]

Well,Thanks 

[tonyr 926]

@Mark405: Very Nice work my friend! I look forward to seeing more.

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

Part of the Caledon Quay district of Passau

 

[mark405 22]

@Mark405: Very Nice work my friend! I look forward to seeing more.

Thanks Tonyr 

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,195]

With a population of 22,600 it seemed a little to big to put in the small towns thread so I thought maybe it might fit here.

This is downtown Laird.

[urielgarcia 344]

Part of the Caledon Quay district of Passau

Wow..that is wonderful.  I always love those modern skylines.  Very stunning.  Great work.  I never got a city to look like that.  Maybe because I used only growables - drove me nuts.

[timmytams 41]

 

My downtown area, still a work in progress

[tonyr 926]

@timmytams:Nice progress there...looks great. Happy planning.

[Taxmeister 2]

I'll throw in a few.  Currently working on region Riemann Lake, which has an American-ish subregion and a European-ish subregion

Möbius, pop 93,000

Westfield, pop 70,000

 

Well, I think I'll post Riemann and Norwalk a little later.  Basically, all 4 cities are on the big lake; Riemann is on the south shore, Norbury is on the north shore, Westfield is... well, you can guess the rest.

[Taxmeister 2]

Well, I didn't want to wait too long, so as promised:

Riemann, pop 106,000

Norbury, pop 108,000

 

In Norbury, the environmentalists have a lot of sway, so the trees get a lot of protection and the city ended up kind of splotchy.  Riemann somehow balanced pretty well... and by somehow, I mean an abundant use of "make historic".  So, them's the towns.

 

Details: handcrafted terrain + no cheats. SC4 Rush Hour, CPT tree mod, NAM, CAM (with excess C/I demand removed).  Terrain mod too (there are snowcapped parts of region).

[Trentreznorspig 4]

How do you guys have these realistic downtown areas? Are those plopables? Because when I try to grow mine. They are all jank.

[Whte_rbt 1,431]

Yeah, they're mostly plopables. If you're trying to grow them make sure u have the Maxis building blockers, that way only ur 3rd party buildings will grow.

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

How do you guys have these realistic downtown areas? Are those plopables? Because when I try to grow mine. They are all jank.

 

I plop as well as Lot Edit 'blocks' of buildings. In my opinion allowing the game to do as it pleases doesn't create either an attractive or a realistic city. It needs to be modded, plopped and edited in many ways. 

 

I generally only allow growable lots for suburban residential and some industry and even then I amend  a lot of it.

[Ke|is 3,333]

Hello Guys;

 

I want to share with all of you some pictures of my current project, It is Hong Kong and I will make a City journal about this recreation in the future !!

 

 

 

I hope you like it

[Trentreznorspig 4]

Well then. If i'm going to do a maxis blocker. I need to have a lot of addons. Any suggestions?

[Compdude787 916]

Well then. If i'm going to do a maxis blocker. I need to have a lot of addons. Any suggestions?

Why use a Maxis blocker when you can have That mod re-lots all the Maxis residential and commercial lots to add seasonal trees to them, and this really goes a long way towards improving the way they look. Many of the Maxis buildings look fine IMO; it's just that they're way too repetitive. Downloading more custom lots will fix this by adding more variety.

[Asser 78]

Hello Guys;

 

I want to share with all of you some pictures of my current project, It is Hong Kong and I will make a City journal about this recreation in the future !!

 

 

I hope you like it

That looks great! I've never thought about using the airport terminals like that, and I've been looking for mods to do something like that.

[jmsepe 2,038]

Wow, awesome work everyone and that Hong Kong is just so realistic! 

 

Here is a downtown, I am currently working on.

 

[tonyr 926]

Beautiful city Jmsepe. I love the tram over road...nice and clean. Where did you get the hedges lining the streets?      

 

Awesome city my friend!

[Turjan 1,048]

Where did you get the hedges lining the streets?  

 

That looks like Neko Panchi's Japanese sidewalk mod, which comes with hedges for avenues (original available here). Magneto made a RHD version of that, available

[tonyr 926]

 

Where did you get the hedges lining the streets?  

 

That looks like Neko Panchi's Japanese sidewalk mod, which comes with hedges for avenues (original available here). Magneto made a RHD version of that, available

 

Thanks Turjan! Much appreciated.

[Infrastructurist 434]

City named Portland (lack of imagination) 
 

Two business districts, with a vague connection between them with some shopping centers and mid-rise residential. 

 

The main business district. The actual CBD.

 

 

 

 

The second business district, also containing the stadium. 

Feedback would be very appreciated and motivate me to make more  

[Infrastructurist 434]

Unnamed city. Also two business districts. The CBD to the north surrounded by freeways. around 95 % of everything is grown. For most of my cities that amount is 100 %.

A city named Wellins shore. A good amount of industry here as well, although it is struggling.

 

Sorry for not making it all a single post.

 

 

City of Wens. Major industrial hub with lots of industry primarily to the west of the CBD.

 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Nebuchadnezza: Those are some interesting looking cities! If only ground view was possible in SC4. I'd love to have a look at the skylines of such cities.

[art128 4,618]

Those are some interesting looking cities!

 

Even more considering it's almost 100% grow. That's very impressive!

[Terring 6,473]

An old Martian CBD

[zdza 547]

Downtown Birmingham.

Concrete city!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I've got a city called Colburn going on. As you can see, it's nowhere near finished yet, but I'm starting to get to the point where I actually start zoning.

 

 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Good choice of only highest-quality BATs, and tasteful arrangement! Red's Hyatt Hotel right on the river bank is a nice touch.

 

EDIT: That three-way avenue intersection looks like a driver's nightmare, though.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Good choice of only highest-quality BATs, and tasteful arrangement! Red's Hyatt Hotel right on the river bank is a nice touch.

 

EDIT: That three-way avenue intersection looks like a driver's nightmare, though.

 Thanks, and yep, horrible road junctions... gotta love 'em. Those stupid sims are to dumb to realise they live in driving hell.